The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 at the Montreux Jazz Festival is a live album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 16th, 1975 and released on the Pablo later that year.Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 16, 2012
Reception The AllMusic review called the album a "good but not great set... There are many moments that elicit grins of pleasure, but none that cause jaws to gape with astonishment".Mason, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 16, 2012
Track listing "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 16:43 "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 16:02 Bonus track on CD reissue "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) – 12:13 "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 11:01
Personnel Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone Milt Jackson – vibraphone Tommy Flanagan – piano Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass Mickey Roker – drums
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